Are We Amusing Ourselves to Death?
Offline with Jon Favreau
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Is There a Pervasive Nihilism Coming Over American Culture?
I think that there is a real threat of kind of this pervasive nihilism coming over American culture. I think the fact that Americans tend to expect literally every element of political life and of life itself to be entertaining can just be very problematic. There is nothing entertaining about climate change, for example. And if entertainment is the only paradigm and the only ethic, we might well not find ways to talk about it.
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